A student, identified as Jeremia Elele of an unnamed university in Delta State has allegedly defrauded about 60 new students of the university of N15 million, meant for their tuition fees, and used the money for dogs sale business
Penpushing reports that Delta State Police Command Public Relations Officer Bright Edafe, in a video clip uploaded on his X handle said the suspect separately collected monies from victims in order to help them pay their tuition fees.
The police spokesperson, a superintendent of police,explained that the students separately gave the suspect between N250,000 and N300,000 each to pay their tuition fees, adding that during interrogation, Elele confessed that he collected the funds from the students, but failed to pay their tuition fees as he agreed with them.
Penpushing further reports that the 28-year-old suspect, however, claimed that he collected such funds from 31 students, not 60 students, claiming that he used the funds to buy between 11 and 15 dogs and then sold them.
The victims separately narrated their ordeal, and one of them, whose face was not shown in the video said he met Elele at the JUPEB programme and that he began to trust him after he helped him pay for an attendance via the university’s software application.
“I trusted him with my school fees which was N210,000 because he claimed he could pay it and that he was working with the school. He claimed he signed as a surety with the school for students paying him to be able to half before paying completely later on,” the victim said.
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